Which of the following options is/are true?

Which of the following options is/are true?

Answer: A. Some K- regular graph can be complete graph; B. In a simple connected graph with more than 2 vertices, it must have at least 2 vertices with same degree.Final assessment: The statements "Some k-regular graph can be complete graph" and "In a simple connected graph with more than 2 vertices, it must have at…

  1. A.

    Some K- regular graph can be complete graph

  2. B.

    In a simple connected graph with more than 2 vertices, it must have at least 2 vertices with same degree.

  3. C.

    A graph G is bipartite if and only has even cycle.

  4. D.

    The degree sum of odd degree vertices must be odd.

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Correct answer: A, B

Final assessment: The statements "Some k-regular graph can be complete graph" and "In a simple connected graph with more than 2 vertices, it must have at least 2 vertices with same degree." are correct. The statements "A graph G is bipartite if and only has even cycle." and "The degree sum of odd degree vertices must be odd." are incorrect.

  • Statement: Some k-regular graph can be complete graph — True. A k-regular graph on n vertices is complete exactly when k = n − 1, because every vertex must be adjacent to all other n − 1 vertices. Example: the complete graph on 4 vertices (K4) is 3-regular.

  • Statement: In a simple connected graph with more than 2 vertices, it must have at least 2 vertices with same degree — True. For a connected simple graph with n > 2 vertices, possible degrees are 1,2,...,n−1 (only n−1 distinct values) while there are n vertices. By the pigeonhole principle, two vertices must share the same degree.

  • Statement: A graph G is bipartite if and only has even cycle — False. The correct characterization is: a graph is bipartite if and only if it has no odd-length cycles. A bipartite graph need not contain any cycle at all (for example, any tree is bipartite), so requiring an even cycle is incorrect.

  • Statement: The degree sum of odd degree vertices must be odd — False. The handshaking lemma implies that the number of vertices with odd degree is even, so the sum of degrees of all odd-degree vertices is even. For example, two vertices of degree 1 have sum 2.

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